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...world's most popular halls of science; of a heart attack; in Chicago. "A tragedy has occurred in our city," lamented a Chicago physicist on learning that the freewheeling radioman was to head the museum. Yet Lohr gave the public everything from a working German U-boat to a pulsing 16-ft. model of the human heart-all of which drew a record 3,300,000 visitors to the museum last year...
...Show, which in spirit at least resembled Lester's later movies. "We did sketches that had no beginnings and no endings," he recalls. "They would just evolve into totally unrelated situations. You would have a spiral staircase, for example, and down it would be coming a line of U-boat captains and a line of chorus girls...
Toward the end of World War II, Eugen Kielbasa, a German U-boat commander, torpedoes an Allied freighter in the South Atlantic. The skipper then orders his young gunnery officer, Emil Kummerol, to destroy all "floating wreckage"-including a dozen helpless survivors. Otherwise, he explains to his shocked crew, Allied planes and subchasers would detect and destroy the U-boat. One of the helpless seamen survives machine-gunning, grenade tossing, ramming, and torturous exposure to the sea. Because of his testimony, Kielbasa and Kummerol are eventually brought before an international war-crimes tribunal. The captain's defense is that...
...book -but not its sum total. The author has endowed his characters with enough depth, human good and human frailties so that neither victor nor vanquished monopolizes virtue. One cannot, even during the submariners' trial, condone their atrocity. But, Griffin wonders, was the crime any greater for the U-boat officers than for the pilots who bombed Dresden or the German scientists who built the buzz bombs that terrified London? And if so, why? Because the lifeboat victims were visible to the killer and therefore more human than the unseen victims of an air raid...
Suddenly, everything began to go wrong. The Luftwaffe's Starfighters rained down from the skies, generals resigned, a U-boat sank, prices rose. Worst of all, estimates for the 1967 budget showed a $1.5 billion deficit, largely because of huge purchases of U.S. weaponry. By law, German budgets must balance. So in September, Erhard flew off to Washington in hopes that President Johnson would agree to a reduction of the arms purchases, which were intended to offset the cost of maintaining U.S. Forces in West Germany. President Johnson plainly decided that the U.S. needed the deutsche marks more than Erhard...